According to the attachment from India: A Travel Survival Kit, the city of Hoshiarpur is located in the state of Punjab (June 1990, 171). The city of Adampour or Adampur could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.

According to Political Handbook of the World: 1994-1995, the "1994E population" for the state of Punjab was 21,465,000 (1995, 387). The 1993 Demographic Yearbook attachment gives the population of Hoshiarpur (city proper) as 122,705 (1995, 282).

Information on the percentage of Sikhs and Hindus in Adampur and Hoshiarpur could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Crowther, Geoff et al. June 1990. 4th ed. India: A Travel Survival Kit. Hawthorne, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications.

Political Handbook of the World: 1994-1995. 1995. Edited by Arthur S. Banks. Binghamton, NY: CSA Publications.

United Nations. 1995. 45th ed. 1993 Demographic Yearbook. New York: United Nations.

Crowther, Geoff et al. June 1990. 4th ed. India: A Travel Survival Kit. Hawthorne, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications, p. 171

United Nations. 1995. 45th ed. 1993 Demographic Yearbook. New York: United Nations, p. 282.

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